Divers have recovered the body of a Tennessee man who was at the controls of a helicopter that crashed into a lake in southwest Virginia. Bill Starnes was the chief pilot for the Food City grocery chain.
With Virginia's coastal areas especially susceptible to climate change, a University of Virginia institute is assisting residents and decision-makers with long-range planning.
Virginia high school students are learning more about personal finance and economics thanks to two digital textbooks developed by the state Department of Education.
The Virginia Department of Health is set to review its approach to addressing efforts to keep the state's smallest children alive until their first birthdays.
The government is forecasting lower yields for some Virginia crops this year. The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services says the state's winter wheat yield is forecast at 65 bushels per acre compared to 71 bushels a year ago.
Stafford Circuit Court Judge Sarah Deneke denied a motion Monday from attorneys for Ashleigh Nicole Dye to present new evidence in hopes of getting a lesser sentence.
On Monday's 85th anniversary of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized state-mandated sterilizations of "undesirables," a Virginia lawmaker is proposing the state offer token reparations to victims still living.
A search warrant says the Roanoke man charged in connection with a pipe bomb explosion in Blacksburg was feuding with his girlfriend's male houseguest.
The Virginia Department of Agriculture says drought conditions have hit parts of the state harder than others. Corn, tobacco, and hay are the hardest-hit crops, while soybeans, peanuts, cotton, peaches, apples and grapes generally have fared better.
Sales of tobacco to minors in the U.S. reached an all-time low in 2011 under a federal-state inspection program intended to curb underage tobacco smoking.
